Editor-in-Chief
Professor Joachim Möller
Director (retired)
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Regensburger Strasse 104
D-90478 Nuremberg
E-mail: Joachim.Moeller@iab.de
Editorial Board
- Professor Martin Abraham
Chair of Sociology and Empirical Labour Market Research
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research interests: Sociology of the labour market, economics and organisation - Professor Melanie Arntz
Deputy Head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Labour Markets and Social Insurance"
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) Mannheim
Leibniz Professor of Labour Economics at Heidelberg University
Research interests: Labour markets in transition, regional labour markets, digitalisation and international division of labour - Professor Katrin Auspurg
Chair of Quantitative Empirical Research
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Research interests: Quantitative methods, social inequalities, analytical sociology, sociology of science - Professor Miriam Beblo
Professor of Economics, especially labour market, migration, gender
Universität Hamburg
Research interests: Labour, family, gender and migration - Professor Martin Biewen
Professor of Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
Main research interests: Income distribution, labour economics, economics of education, machine learning and microeconometrics
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences University Tübingen - Professor Herbert Brücker
Head of the Research Department for Migration, Integration and International Labour Studies at IAB
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Director of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at Humboldt University
Research interests: international migration, European integration and labour market policy - Dr Christian Brzinsky-Fay
Berlin Social Science Center
Scientific Research Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme "Good Work in a Transformative World"
Research interests: Empirical methods in the social sciences, life course analysis, international comparative inequality and education and labour market research. - Professor Sandra Buchholz
Head of the Research Area “Educational Careers and Graduate Employment”
German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)
W3-Professorship "Quantitative Life Course Sociology" at Hannover University
Research interests: life course research; social inequalities; social mobility and stratification; international comparative social structure analysis; labour market research; young people and their entry into the labour market; old age, entering retirement and retirement; wealth inequalities; gender-specific employment histories and family processes; comparison of welfare states, labour market regimes and educational systems; quantitative research methods - Professor Wolfgang Dauth
Head of the Research Department "Regional Labour Markets"
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Professor of Regional Labor Economics at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg
Research interests: Labour market economics with regional and urban economics and international economics - Professor Christian Ebner
Head of the Chair of Sociology with a focus on labour and organisation
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Main research interests: Jobs and working conditions, 'workaholism'/work addiction, occupational prestige and attitudes towards work, digitalisation and change in the world of work and dual vocational training and continuing vocational training - Professor Bernd Fitzenberger
Director of the Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Professor of Quantitative Labor Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research Interests: equality of income and salaries, employment trends, evaluation of measures in the field of labor market and education policy, vocational training and the transition from school to the labor market, employment of mothers, trade unions (binding collective agreements, degree of organisation, salary structures and employment), evaluation methods and methods of quantile regression - Professor Britta Gehrke
Professor of applied macroeconomics at the University of Rostock
Universität Rostock
Research interests: macroeconomics, labor markets and business cycles - Professor Laszlo Goerke
Professor of Business Administration, particularly Personnel Economics and Director of the Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in European Union at the University of Trier
Universität Trier
Research interests: Labour Market and Personnel Economics, economics of Welfare State, Ecomical analysis of Law, Optimal Taxation and Tax Evasion - Professor Nicole Gürtzgen
Head of the IAB research department „Labour market processes and institutions“
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Chair of Economics, with a particular focus on labour market Research
Universität Regensburg
Research interests: empirical labour market research and applied microeconometrics - Professor Andreas Hadjar
Professor in Sociology of Education
Université du Luxembourg
Professor of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Research at the Institute of Social Work, Social Policy and Global Development
Universität Freiburg
Research interests: Inequalities in education, education systems, migration, gender, social stratification, identities, international comparisons and research methods. - Professor Hans Martin Hasselhorn
MD, Specialist in Occupational Health
Head of the Department "Labour Science“
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Research interests: Work and Health; Work, Age, Health and Employment; Participation; Psychoysocial Pressures and Demands of Work - Professor Thomas Hinz
Chair of Empirical Social Research with a Focus on Survey Research
Universität Konstanz
Research Interests: Survey experiments, methods of empirical social research, labor market sociology, social inequality, organizational and economic sociology - Professor Boris Hirsch
Professor of Economics, in particular Microeconometrics and Policy Evaluation at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
University of Lüneburg
Research interests: theory and empirics of imperfectly competitive labour markets, empirical labour economics, industrial relations and migration - Professor Elke Jahn
Distinguished Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Bayreuth
Universität Bayreuth
Research interests: migration, temporary agency work, labour protection legislation and comparative labour law - Professor Krisztina Kis-Katos
Professor for International Economic Policy
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Research interests: applied development economics and political economy - Professor Aderonke Osikominu
Professor at University of Hohenheim where she leads the group "Econometrics and Empirical Economics"
Universität Hohenheim
Research interests: Applied Econometrics, Labour Economics, Economics of Education and Program Evaluation - Professor Christian Pfeifer
Professor of Econimics, Applied Microeconomics
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Labour and Personnel Economics, Education and Health Economics - Professor Dieter Sadowski
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of TRENEGeG Trier
Universität Trier
Research interests: Personnel economics and labour politics, Economic analysis of labour law, Educational economics, Public business administration, Businesses and civil society - Professor Joseph Sakshaug
Distinguished researcher, deputy head of research, and head of the Data Collection and Data Integration Unit in the Statistical Methods Research Department at the IAB
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Professor of statistics at the School of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics at the LMU Munich
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Honorary full professor at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim
University of Mannheim
Research interests: data quality in complex surveys, integration of multiple data sources and empirical research methods - Professor Claus Schnabel
Chair of Labor and Regional Economics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research Professor
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
Research interests: trade unions and employer associations, employee co-determination, wage formation, wage gaps, self-employment, labour market monopsony, and plant closings
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Professor Uta Schönberg
Professor of Economics
University College London
Research interests: Applied Microeconomics, in particular Labor Economics - Professor Susan Seeber
Professor of Business Education and Human Resource Development
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Research interest: Measurement of vocational competencies, including proficiency scaling in business education; Research on teaching and learning implications of digitalisation in the commercial area; Research on vocational education for sustainability and on the measurement on competences for sustainability; System monitoring in vocational education and training (VET) and research on social disparities in transitions into VET and CVET - Professor Alexandra Spitz-Oener
Professor of Economics
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Research Fellow
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Research interests: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics - Professor Gesine Stephan
Head of the Research Unit "Active Labour Market Policies and Integration"
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Professor of Economics
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Research interests: microeconometric labour market research, in particular the evaluation of active and passive labour market policies - Professor Olaf Struck
Professorship for Labour Science
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Research interests: Labour market, economy and company; Welfare state research, social structure analysis and social policy; Education and training, life course and generation research; Statistics and qualitative methods of social research; Sociological theory - Professor Stephan L. Thomsen
Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Policy
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Research interests: Empirical economics and econometrics, especially applied econometrics, microeconometrics and (microeconometric) policy evaluation; Labour economics and education economics, especially evaluation of policy reforms, human capital development, migration and social security - Professor Mark Trappmann
Head of the research department “Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security“
Institute for Employment Research of the German Federal Employment Agency (IAB)
Chair of Sociology, especially Survey Methodology
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Research interests: Survey methodology - Professor Katharina Wrohlich
Head of Gender Economics Research Group; Research Associate of the Public Economics Department
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. (DIW Berlin)
Professor of Public Finance, Gender and Family Economics
Universität Potsdam
Research interests: Gender, Labor and employment, Family, Public finances
Advisory Board
- Professor John T. Addison, University of South Carolina, Columbia (USA)
- Professor David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA)
- Professor Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg
- Professor Alison Booth, Australian National University, Canberra (Australien)
- Professor Hannah Brückner, New York University/Abu Dhabi (Vereinigte Arabische Emirate)
- Professor Colin Crouch, Warwick Business School, Coventry (Großbritannien)
- Professor Steven J. Davis, University of Chicago (USA)
- Professor Christian Dustmann, University College London (Großbritannien)
- Professor Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Universitat de Barcelona (Spanien)
- Professor Michael Lechner, University of St. Gallen (Schweiz)
- Professor Thomas Lemieux, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Kanada)
- Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (Berlin)
- Professor Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia, (USA)